How your giving helps change lives

How your giving helps change lives

79% of our income goes directly to charitable activities - helping families and their communities. The other 21% is invested in fundraising, so you'll support us to raise more money to help children around the world.

Devotional: A Life-Changing Journey Download Form

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Rohingya Refugee Response, Bangladesh

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Chickens

Gift of animals Chickens

A pair of chickens could bring their own gifts to a family.

Their eggs enrich children’s diets.
Chickens can also be sold – along with new chicks.
And their manure can be used to fertilise vegetable gardens.

Ezra (pictured) and his family received chickens, vegetable and fruit seeds – they can now enjoy more nutritious diets and their farming has also improved.

If you don’t want to give a goat – but you like the idea of an alternative charity gift that keeps on giving… why not give a chicken? (Or two!) Chicken gifts could bring health, happiness, and longer-term benefits to families’ livelihoods.

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A group of children smile into the camera, standing in the dark in Zambia holding candles

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A Life-Changing Journey Download Form

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Volunteer Sign Up Form

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Trek Kilimanjaro lead sign up form

Trek Kilimanjaro lead sign up form

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Pumpkin Heroes Pack Sign Up Form

Pumpkin Heroes Pack Sign Up Form

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Download the My World Vision app to find out more about your sponsored child, how your donations are making a difference, and to keep in touch with one of our easy to use letter writing templates.

Log in to see how you make a difference and keep in touch with your sponsored child.

Two young girls in Ghana pose for a picture outside of their kids club building.

Top 9 Questions New Sponsors ask

Your top questions about sponsoring a child – answered

Former sponsored child smiles in field in Zambia

Why sponsor a child?

All the reasons explained - from fighting poverty to transforming your own life.

Young Ethiopian girl carries a baby on her back, she's walking in a field.

Why does FGM still happen?

Understanding factors that contribute to the ongoing practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).

Entire community in Mali dances in celebration at a water pump opening ceremony that will transform the community

How Sponsorship transforms communities

How you can chart a better future for whole communities, not just individuals.

14 year old girl in Kenya, standing next to a World Vision worker, opens post from her sponsor

Child Sponsorship FAQs

Every question answered.

A child sponsor, gives a child a necklace and bracelet matching her own, in Ethopia

Sponsor stories

How sponsoring a child changed these people's lives.

Girl in Democratic Republic Congo smiles as she claps her hands together, standing in a green field

Ending period poverty

Learn about our programmes to end period poverty for all girls.

Kenyan woman with chicks and chickens

A community transformed

Damaris’ despair turned to joy. Now her whole community is flourishing.

9-year-old boy sitting next to the family's crops

No hunger despite drought

Working with communities to end the hunger crises.

Seven-year-old Kenyan girl stands outside her home smiling

Ending female genital mutilation

Working with communities to end FGM.

Serious 8-year-old girl stands in the doorway of her family's small 2-room home

End female genital mutilation

Working with communities to end this harmful practice.

Mother and daughter in colourful clothes smiling in front of their home, DRC

Child Sponsorship changes lives

Find out how sponsoring a child like Hevé can change a life for good.

Child in Zambia reads a letter from his sponsor while a World Vision worker sits next to him

What to write and send to your sponsored child

Writing prompts, information on letter sending and hearing back from your sponsored child.

Log in to your My Sponsorship account to find out more about your sponsored child, how your donations are making a difference, and to keep in touch with one of our easy to use letter writing templates.

Log in to see how you make a difference and keep in touch with your sponsored child.

I have gained confidence to follow my dreams

Child Sponsorship has given Rahul the confidence to develop his artistic skills

Female lawyer from Bangladesh smiling at the camera, once a sponsored child

Sponsored girls: where are they now?

Child Sponsorship is making a real difference

Group of young adults enjoying a walk together

How to organise a charity walk to raise money

Tips on setting up a successful fundraising walk

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The impact of having a pen pal as a child

Learn how having a pen pal can help child development.

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Charitable activities for children

Four reasons why charitable activities can help children grow into giving people

Ugandan children

Chosen is hope for Uganda

Sometimes you hear about something amazing … then you see it

Cambodian school children washing their hands

Change a child’s life this Christmas

Meet children whose lives have been transformed through Child Sponsorship.

Girl from Ethiopia wearing a head wrap looking at the camera and smiling

Fighting for girls’ rights

Teaching girls about the effects of child marriage and gender violence.

4-year-old Marua stands in door way

Help a child: Child Sponsorship

Provide food, healthcare, education and the tools to break free from poverty.

Bhojpur children enjoying school thanks to child sponsorship

Child Sponsorship transforms communities

Amazing changes, including a 15-year-old fighting child marriage

Girl in Bangladesh stands in the midst of floods where her village used to be

How climate change affects child poverty

We look into the link between child poverty and climate change around the world.

A wordle poem made by UK schoolchildren, using different words associated with courage

Brave believers

In the run up to Easter, schoolchildren in East Anglia are taking on a courageous challenge.

Two girls run along the banks of the Naf River in Bangladesh. Across the water, below clear blue skies in their former home, Myanmar

Summer fun photo story

Photo story: Children around the world have fun in the sun

Dina and her football team

The girls empowered by football

Meet the girls using football to challenge gender stereotypes.

A young woman stands in shadows, peering out from around a brick wall

Top stories of the year

Members of a girls' group in India stand together

End violence against women and girls

Standing up and speaking out

Hands hold a hardcover version of the book 'Stories from girls who dared to dream', with bright, bold illustrated cover

Girls who dared to dream

Stories of 10 girls who dreamed big, never gave up and did things that seemed impossible.

Joyce stands with a female pupil from the school she founded - both smile contentedly

Teachers making a difference

Two teachers beat the odds to become educators, thanks to World Vision support

Teachers change futures

A young girl in Bangladesh beams and holds the photo of her new child sponsors

15 Child Sponsorship quotes

UK Child sponsors and sponsored children share their experiences of Child Sponsorship.

Young Cynthia sits in her wheelchair at home, her mum smiling at her

Child sponsorship transformed Cynthia’s life

Seizures stole Cynthia's childhood. Child Sponsorship is transforming her future.

A boy stands with cricket bat, in front of the stumps, ready to play cricket

Olympians of tomorrow

Photo story: Children around the world playing sports

Child in Malawi walks holding a bucket of water over their head

Exploring the effects of child poverty in Africa

We dig into the history, present and the effects of child poverty in Africa.

5 recipes from around the world

Child sponsor Rhiannon shares her lockdown recipes

Pauline, wearing hard hat and overalls, jumps for joy during her internship

A promising young woman

How a sponsored girl from rural Kenya is overcoming all the odds to bring water to her home village.

World Vision UK child sponsors, Mark and Christine from Newcastle

UK Child Sponsors Zoom from Newcastle to India

After 10 years, Mark and Christine met their sponsored child during lockdown.

Child sponsor, Renee, relaxes

Being a child sponsor changed my life, forever

Renee wanted to help a child in poverty. Read how Child Sponsorship’s brought joy to her life too.

Girl in India sits outside her home, smiling as she talks about helping prevent child marriages for others

Anuradha: More than a child bride

At 13 marriage ended Anuradha’s dreams. Now becoming more than she ever thought - how’s she done it?

Victor eats a freshly cooked corn cob outside his mountain home

Christmas wish for a warm blanket

Imagine this Christmas is first time a young boy will sleep warm...

Caroline and Lizzie McLeod smile as they wait for their call with sponsored child Odalis

First virtual visit

How did Lizzie's breakthrough virtual visit with her sponsored child go?

Young girl in a red and yellow top riding a bike - not in view - and smiling to camera with blurred countryside background

Does Child Sponsorship really help?

Meet just some of the children whose lives have been transformed by Sponsorship.

Woman and girl sit on plastic chairs together in India

Visiting your sponsored child

Learn about visiting your child, and hear from those who have.

A young boy in Ghana beams as he holds a new cup of fresh, clean water straight from the new water pump

All I want for Christmas is clean water

Sponsor a child and change a life this Christmas

Girl helps in her father's field in Honduras

A girl who dares to dream

Nahomy has big dreams thanks to Child Sponsorship

Sponsored girl in Sierra Leone smiles as she stands against a yellow wall

How Isata's life was changed by Child Sponsorship

Learn how sponsorship transformed her village and her prospects

Former sponsored child, Jackson

How sponsorship changed Jackson's life

The story of how education and child sponsorship turned Jackson's life around

Malawian Elita, like many others, is at risk of child marriage

Child marriage in Malawi - a horror story

Temwa married her university sweetheart. But for many Malawian girls, a wedding means child marriage

Meeting my sponsored girl and her family

Meeting the girl I sponsored for 10 years

The overwhelming joy of meeting Gloria, my sponsored girl, for the first time.

Collins writes a letter to his sponsor

Survey finds drop in children’s letter writing

48% of British school children say they’ve never written a letter to a friend, a survey finds.

Sonali, former child worker, smiles at the camera

The life of a child worker

In many developing countries, children are denied an education and forced to work as child labourers

World Vision with sponsored children in Zambia

A day in the life of a sponsored child in Zambia

Learn what it's like to be a sponsored child in Zambia.

Maxine and her peers as children in the '80s.

What does childhood mean to you?

We asked 'What Does Childhood Mean To You?' Here are some of your reactions.

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